Usefulness Quotes - Page 3

• The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, Men, Increase

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4081, Library of Alexandria

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• Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

  Immanuel Kant

  Anarchy, Cannabis, Faculty

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• Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

  Charles William Eliot

  Spiritual, Thinking, Expansion

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• Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.

  Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

  Real, Character, Giving

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• The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

  Ovid

  Crowds, Vulgar, Values

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• It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

  Cleveland Abbe

  Long, Youth, Should

  Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, Silas Weir Mitchell, Cleveland Abbe, Edward Leamington Nichols, Edwin Herbert Hall (1919). “Biographical Memoir of Theodore Nicholas Gill, 1837-1914: 1913”

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• I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, House, Quality

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.516

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• The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Discipline, Life Is

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• A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Independent, Persons

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• Usefulness depends on tractability.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Depends

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

  Laozi

  Emptiness, Pot

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• The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

  Lane Kirkland

  Groups, Size, Murphys Law

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• Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Careers, Generations

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Lying, Heart, Sweetness Of Life

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

  Peter Drucker

  May, Ends

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.142, Routledge

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• With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.

  Dalai Lama

  Relationship, Sister, Wise

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• Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Progress Of Society, Political, Lines

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.97, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.

  Louis Agassiz

  Art, Nature, Science

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• Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Reading, Mind

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.193, Penguin

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• The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature and purpose as a deliberate human activity. Doubtless this is due to the inevitable drawback that mathematical study is saturated with technicalities from beginning to end.

  Herbert Turnbull

  Science, Experts, Purpose

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• In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

  Suzanne Collins

  Our World, Hair, Rainbow

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.206, Scholastic Inc.

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• Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth. Martin Luther If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important then, to feel our dependence upon Him!

  Matthew Simpson

  New Year, Angel, Son

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• The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

  Dennis Weaver

  Oil, Age, Energy

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• All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

  Martin Gardner

  Teaching, Math, Depth

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• The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Needs, Make Sense

  Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal, September 8, 1979.

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